* NOAA FAQ " What is ENSO?

In its system, the NOAA fleet is divided into two broad categories, research ships and survey ships.

The letter is followed by a three-digit number ; the first digit indicates the NOAA " class " ( i. e., size ) of the vessel, which NOAA assigns based on the ship's gross tonnage and horsepower, while the next two digits combine with the first digit to create a unique three-digit identifying number for the ship.

Generally, each NOAA hull number is written with a space between the letter and the three-digit number, as in, for example, NOAAS Nancy Foster ( R 352 ) or NOAAS Thomas Jefferson ( S 222 ).

This scale, known as the Soloviev-Imamura tsunami intensity scale, is used in the global tsunami catalogues compiled by the NGDC / NOAA and the Novosibirsk Tsunami Laboratory as the main parameter for the size of the tsunami.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration ( NOAA ), pronounced, like " Noah ", is a scientific agency within the United States Department of Commerce focused on the conditions of the oceans and the atmosphere.

NOAA is also the steward of U. S. coastal and marine environments.

NOAA is intended to be a source of accurate and objective scientific information in the four particular areas of national and global importance identified above: ecosystems, climate, weather and water, and commerce and transportation.

Recognizing that it is essential that we understand the challenges that we face as part of the Earth system in order to create appropriate solutions, NOAA conducts an end-to-end sequence of activities, beginning with scientific discovery and resulting in a number of critical environmental services and products.

NOAA data is also relevant to the issues of global warming and ozone depletion.

NOAA's research, conducted through the Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research ( OAR ), is the driving force behind NOAA environmental products and services that protect life and property and promote economic growth.

The NOAA flag is a modification of the flag of one of its predecessor organizations, the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey.

The NOAA flag is in essence the Coast and Geodetic Survey flag, with the NOAA logo — a circle divided by the silhouette of a seabird into an upper dark blue and a lower light blue section, but with the " NOAA " legend omitted — centered within the red triangle.

NOAA ships in commission display the NOAA flag ; those with only one mast fly it immediately beneath the ship's commissioning pennant or the personal flag of a civilian official or flag officer if one is aboard the ship, while multimasted vessels fly it at the masthead of the forwardmost mast.

It is used at higher bitrates for Weathercopy used on Weatheradio by NOAA in the U. S.

Data is received via the NOAA Command and Data Acquisition ground station at Wallops Island, Virginia The GOES satellites are controlled from the Satellite Operations Control Center ( SOCC ) located in Suitland, Maryland.

The procurement, design and manufacturing of GOES is overseen by NASA, while all operations of the satellites once in orbit are done by NOAA.

Although NOAA currently sends images to South America, the frequency drops from 30-minutes to 3 hours whenever a storm occurs in North America, which is roughly 40 % of the time during the hurricane season.

It is used by NWS for its NOAA Weather Radio transmission signal.

The standard NOAA rain gauge, developed around the start of the 20th century, consists of a funnel emptying into a graduated cylinder, 2 cm in diameter, that fits inside a larger container which is 20 cm in diameter and 50 cm tall.

Thomas Knutson and Robert E. Tuleya of the NOAA stated in 2004 that warming induced by greenhouse gas may lead to increasing occurrence of highly destructive category-5 storms .< ref > Thomas R. Knutson, et al., Journal of Climate, Impact of CO < sub > 2 </ sub >- Induced Warming on Simulated Hurricane Intensity and Precipitation: Sensitivity to the Choice of Climate Model and Convective Parameterization, 15 Sept. 2004.

In coordination with federal, state, local, tribal, and international authorities, NOAA manages the use of these environments, regulating fisheries and marine sanctuaries as well as protecting threatened and endangered marine species.

NOAA was formed on October 3, 1970, after Richard Nixon proposed creating a new department to serve a national need "… for better protection of life and property from natural hazards … for a better understanding of the total environment … for exploration and development leading to the intelligent use of our marine resources …" NOAA formed a conglomeration of three existing agencies that were among the oldest in the federal government.

Other U. S. federal government agencies based in the county include the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration ( NOAA ), Nuclear Regulatory Commission ( NRC ), U. S. Department of Energy ( DOE ), the National Institute of Standards and Technology ( NIST ), the National Naval Medical Center ( NNMC ), U. S. Consumer Product Safety Commission ( CPSC ) and the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency ( NGA ).

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Commissioned Corps ( styled the Commissioned Officer Corps under federal law and known informally as NOAA Corps ) is one of seven federal uniformed services of the United States, which operates under the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration ( NOAA ), a scientific agency within the Department of Commerce.

Two federal agencies have supported various weather modification research projects, which began in the early 1960s: The United States Bureau of Reclamation ( Reclamation ; Department of the Interior ) and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration ( NOAA ; Department of Commerce ).

The reserve is managed by the Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management as a federal / state partnership in cooperation with NOAA.

The Act is administered by two federal agencies, the United States Fish and Wildlife Service ( FWS ) and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration ( NOAA ).

The ESA is administered by two federal agencies, the United States Fish and Wildlife Service ( FWS ) and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration ( NOAA ) ( which includes the National Marine Fisheries Service, or NMFS ).

Specifically, the committee has partial or complete jurisdiction over the following federal agencies: NASA, the Department of Energy, EPA, ATSDR, NSF, FAA, NOAA, National Institute of Standards and Technology, FEMA, the U. S. Fire Administration, and United States Geological Survey.

The UCMJ applies to all members of the Military of the United States, including military retirees as well as members of other federal uniformed services ( such as NOAA Corps and the Public Health Service Commissioned Corps ) when attached to the military.

However, the standard US jack ( i. e., 50 white stars on a blue field ) continues to be used as the jack by vessels of the US Coast Guard, the Military Sealift Command, and NOAA, to name but a few federal agencies.

The Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory ( AOML ), a federal research laboratory, is part of National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's ( NOAA ) Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research ( OAR ), located in Miami, Florida.

Required monthly tests ( RMTs ) are generally originated by the primary relay station, a state emergency management agency, or by the National Weather Service ( NOAA / NWS ) and are then relayed by broadcast and cable stations.

It is operated by the NWS, an agency of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration ( NOAA ) within the United States Department of Commerce.

NEXRAD or Nexrad ( Next-Generation Radar ) is a network of 159 high-resolution S-band Doppler weather radars operated by the National Weather Service, an agency of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration ( NOAA ) within the United States Department of Commerce.

Argos was developed under a Memorandum of Understanding ( MOU ) between the Centre National d ' Etudes Spatiales ( CNES, the French space agency ), the National Aeronautics and Space Administration ( NASA, USA ) and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration ( NOAA, USA ).

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration ( NOAA ), a component of the United States Department of Commerce, also uses a hull classification symbol system, which it also calls " hull numbers ," for its fleet.

Once an older NOAA ship leaves service, a newer one can be given the same hull number ; for example, " S 222 " was assigned to NOAAS Mount Mitchell ( S 222 ), then assigned to NOAAS Thomas Jefferson ( S 222 ), which entered NOAA service after Mount Mitchell was stricken.

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* NOAA page on Climate Forcing Data includes ( calculated ) data on Earth orbit variations over the last 50 million years and for the coming 20 million years

In 1983 NOAA assumed operational responsibility for LANDSAT satellite system.

The Office of Program Planning and Integration was established in June 2002 as the focus for a new corporate management culture at NOAA.

In the winter of 2011-2012, the cod fishery succeeded in convincing NOAA to postpone for one year the planned 82 % reduction in catch limits.

In October 2006, NOAA repositioned GOES-10 ( originally GOES-K ) over the Amazon region, to provide full-time coverage for South American countries.

* National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Fisheries Office for Law Enforcement, often abbreviated NOAA OLE

Funding for a replacement for ACE is in the 2012 budget request for NOAA with a planned launch in 2015.